1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990003252860403321

Autore

Vessereau, André

Titolo

La STATISTIQUE

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Paris : Presses Universitaires de France, 1947

Edizione

[1]

Descrizione fisica

pp. 125

Disciplina

021.006

Locazione

DECGE

Collocazione

021.006.VES

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462572303321

Autore

Morledge Roy

Titolo

Building procurement [[electronic resource] /] / Roy Morledge, Adrian Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, West Sussex, U.K., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013

ISBN

1-299-15927-3

9781118493700

1-118-49370-2

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 327 p.) : ill

Altri autori (Persone)

SmithAdrian <1945->

Disciplina

658.15/242

Soggetti

Construction industry - Great Britain

Construction industry - United States

Construction industry - China

Industrial procurement - Great Britain

Industrial procurement - United States

Industrial procurement - China

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa



Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Procurement strategy : a literature review -- Principles of strategic procurement -- Public sector projects -- Project initiation -- Briefing and the design process -- Procurement strategies and procurement routes -- Project team selection -- Managing the procurement process -- The value of design -- Risk -- Partnering culture and the management of relationships -- Privately financed public sector projects -- Construction procurement: europe, the middle east and china -- Procurement of work to heritage buildings -- Summary.

Sommario/riassunto

As an industrial process, construction is unique in that the method of procurement of any built asset (building, infrastructure or process plant) defines many of the subsequent management processes that take place during the building phase - a very different situation to the purchase of goods and services in most other industries. The procurement process is therefore central to the success of any construction project and many of the problems which impact construction projects can be traced back to the procurement phase, so a good understanding of the methods of procurement and the influence



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910959202603321

Autore

Homer Frederic D

Titolo

Primo Levi and the politics of survival / / Frederic D. Homer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, c2001

ISBN

0-8262-6300-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (287 p.)

Disciplina

853/.914

B

Soggetti

Politics and culture - Italy - History - 20th century

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)

Authors, Italian - 20th century

Holocaust survivors - Italy

Jews - Italy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-271) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Force Majeure -- 2 Hobbesian Hell -- 3 Ill-Constituted Beings -- 4 Violence -- 5 The Tragic Sense of Life -- 6 Useful Qualities of Human Nature -- 7 Choices -- 8 Purpose and Work -- 9 Optimistic Pessimism -- 10 Civilized Liberalism -- 11 A Defense of Modernism -- 12 Levi's Death -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

At the age of twenty-five, Primo Levi was sent to Hell. Levi, an Italian chemist from Turin, was one of many swept up in the Holocaust of World War II and sent to die in the German concentration camp in Auschwitz. Of the 650 people transported to the camp in his group, only 15 men and 9 women survived. After Soviet liberation of the camp in 1945, Levi wrote books, essays, short stories, poetry, and a novel, in which he painstakingly described the horrors of his experience at Auschwitz. He also spent the rest of his life struggling with the fact that he was not among those who were killed. In Primo Levi and the Politics of Survival, Frederic D. Homer looks at Primo Levi's life but, more important, shows him to be a significant political philosopher. In the course of his writings, Levi asked and answered his most haunting question: can someone be brutalized by a terrifying experience and,



upon return to "ordinary life," recover from the physical and moral destruction he has suffered? Levi used this question to develop a philosophy positing that although man is no match for life, he can become better prepared to contend with the tragedies in life. According to Levi, the horrors of the world occur because of the strength of human tendencies, which make relationships between human beings exceedingly fragile. He believed that we are ill-constituted beings who have tendencies toward violence and domination, dividing ourselves into Us and Them, with very shallow loyalties. He also maintained that our only refuge is in education and responsibility, which may counter these tendencies. Homer calls Levi's philosophy "optimistic pessimism." As Homer demonstrates, Levi took his past experiences into account to determine that goodwill and democratic institutions do not come easily to people. Liberal society is to be earned through discipline and responsibility toward our weaknesses. Levi's answer is "civilized liberalism." To achieve this we must counter some of our most stubborn tendencies. Homer also explores the impact of Levi's death, an apparent suicide, on the way in which his work and theories have been perceived. While several critics discount Levi's work because of the nature of his death, Homer argues that his death is consistent with his philosophy. A book rich in brutally honest philosophy, Primo Levi and the Politics of Survival compels one to look at serious questions about life, tragedy, optimism, solidarity, violence, and human nature.